A while back, I met up with an old friend and she suggested we meet at Greyhound Cafe at Harbour City. I had heard of Greyhound, but had never been there. I'm not a TST person - Harbour City is a maze, and Greyhound definitely was not easy to find. If you were to ask me to go there on my own right now, I would probably get lost along the way (again!)
I was pretty shocked when I realized that Greyhound was a Thai fusion restaurant. On first glance, there is nothing Thai about the restaurant - even the name, Greyhound, makes it sound like a western restaurant! The interior of Greyhound is very neat and kind of artsy - it's slightly dim and there are lightbulbs hanging from the ceiling as decoration.
The choice of food here is pretty extensive. It seems that there is more western food, like steak, lamb chop and hamburgers, than actual Thai food. But since this is a THAI fusion restaurant, I decided to go with my favorite Thai dish - pad Thai - while my friend ordered the spaghetti carbonara. We also got an appetizer - calamari - to share.
My favorite dish of the night was the calamari. It was fried perfectly and didn't taste too oily, and the squid was really nice and chewy. You could tell that the tartar sauce is homemade - I really liked it and it went very well with the calamari. I thought the pad Thai was not bad, but about a month later I actually went to Phuket and of course, I ordered the pad Thai a couple of times, and they all tasted much better than what I had at Greyhound! Comparatively, the pad Thai at Greyhound was less fragrant and lacking in peanuts. I thought the shrimp was pretty good though. I had a taste of my friend's carbonara and it was quite ordinary, in my opinion - nothing too special, though it was very creamy.
Overall, I don't know if I'll be back at Greyhound again because while the calamari was amazing and the pad Thai was not bad, the rest of the menu didn't really appeal to me. It was a lot of spaghetti and steak, which isn't really my thing. Although portion sizes were decent, it still was a little pricey in my opinion. read more